App Store Review Monitor

Get alerted the moment a new App Store review lands — for your app and your competitors — with sentiment, version, and an optional negative-only mode that surfaces 1–2★ reviews before they snowball.

Built on Apple's free, public reviews RSS feed — no API key, no anti-bot. It stores a snapshot between scheduled runs and reports only the reviews that are new since the last check.

Who it's for

• Indie app developers and small studios who can't justify a paid ASO suite
• Product teams that want a same-day flag on a new negative review, not a weekly digest
• Anyone tracking competitor apps' reviews for feature requests or complaints

What you get

Field	What it is
app / appId	Which app (yours or a competitor) and its App Store ID
rating	1–5★
sentiment	positive / neutral / negative, derived from rating
title / review	The review text
version	App version reviewed
author	Reviewer's displayed name
checkedAt	When it was captured

The first run against an app returns BASELINE SET — nothing to compare against yet. New reviews appear from the second run onward.

Input

{
  "apps": ["Notion"],
  "country": "us",
  "onlyNegative": false,
  "maxPages": 5
}

apps accepts App Store numeric IDs or app names (resolved via Apple's public search API) — add your own app plus competitors in the same list. country is the App Store's two-letter country code. onlyNegative limits output to 1–2★ reviews; keyword filters to reviews mentioning a specific word. Set webhookUrl to POST new reviews to Slack, Zapier or an email service as JSON.

Pricing

$0.005 per app checked, plus $0.002 per new review found. Checking 5 apps daily with 20 new reviews across them costs $0.025 + $0.04 = $0.065 that day. Run it on an Apify schedule to make it a true monitor — a one-off run only establishes the baseline.

How it compares

No browser and no paid ASO API — this reads Apple's own public RSS feed directly, so a check is a handful of paginated JSON requests per app. That keeps it cheap enough to run against your app plus several competitors on a daily schedule.

Use with n8n / Make / Zapier

Add an Apify integration node, run this actor on a schedule with your app list, then read the dataset for anything past the baseline run — or point webhookUrl straight at a Slack or Zapier webhook to skip the polling step.

FAQ

Why did the first run return only BASELINE SET? There's no prior snapshot yet. Run it again, or wait for the next scheduled run, to see new reviews.

Does it cover Google Play? No — this actor covers the Apple App Store only, via Apple's public reviews RSS feed.

How is sentiment decided? Directly from the star rating: 4–5★ positive, 3★ neutral, 1–2★ negative. It isn't a text-sentiment model reading the review body.

Can I resolve an app by name instead of ID? Yes — pass the app name and it's resolved through Apple's public iTunes search API to its numeric ID.

Does this need my own developer account? No — it's public review data, no App Store Connect access or API key required.

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